I think for the men in the audience at least the phrase I'd Rather Play Cards Than Fix The Fence has some truth in it when it comes to maintenance on a home. Always more honey do's on the list than weekends or time to complete them. Maintenance on homes, especially large ones I am convinced more ...

Sometimes in the blogosphere you just have to sit back, relax, and pause and enjoy the world. Others I have talked to on the phone or emailed said they had quit watching or cut back on looking at TV news cause it started to depress them. So I offer a cartoon from the Roadrunner genre. A new one, ...

The For Sale By Owners sellers just don't get it with real estate agents. REALTORS PROTECT them. Agents Are The Lifeguards Of Their Clients For keeping them out of legal trouble to begin with in knowing the real estate transaction completely not to mention all the authorized promulgated forms. O...

Especially in negotiation in real estate as well obviously as in our personal relationships, heated arguments arise and it moves into anger. Anger has at its root fear, did you know that? We should come to an understanding to Take The Sting Out Of Heated Arguments. While something is directed at ...

That phrase "when pigs fly" can be a good check for you on reality. If something is too unreasonable to believe, it is not going to happen. In real estate an appraisal coming in within range, a bank funding a loan by closing, an agent providing you the seller's disclosure for your buyer, a prompt...

Coming out of the Easter holiday many themes leave their residue behind with us, resurrection, re-birth, renewal. If we might think of something new for our business and personal relationships we can take from Easter the lesson of caring. They say business, good business, and for that matter good...

Having had several parallel important deadlines to knock out recently I thought I would reiterate a stress lowering technique in this area if you are not practicing it. Obviously common sense says to prioritize your deadlines. But also, Jump Your Deadlines. Not jumping cars or the Snake River C...

Especially for men I would say to inform them that Houses Are NOT Bought Purely For Logical Reasons Logic has its PART, like monthly payment, square footage, floor plan, size of lot, distance to work, property taxes etc. but the reality is houses Are bought on emotion and justified by logic. What...

In many of our learning experiences as REALTORS so much of it is about classroom training or office partner meetings or learning from our affiliate partners. But what about selling and dealing hands on day to day with the public? As independent contractors much of that is on the job training by o...

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